frankie cut-outs

Mother's Day came around and I realised that my handmade card stock had run out, and my envelopes full of cut-outs from kids' books and magazines were completely empty. Frankie Magazine is always a great source for collage elements, so over breakfast yesterday, I cut out an assortment of cute illustrations from a few recent issues Frankie.

Here's the Mother's Day card I made for Jack's lovely Mum - a cute pair of teacups on a decorative Japanese paper background with a little extra visual interest created by having the cup handles over-hanging the edge of the card.

The process of cutting out the figures resulted in a variety of silhouettes, which look quite lovely grouped together.

 I can see a lot of design potential in these overlapping silhouettes that I'm definitely going to explore further.

Before I knew it, strange things started to happen. This is often the way with paper crafts. A little girl in a yellow coat stood in a teaspoon.

 

 Can you spot which cups are paper and which are china?

That was fun! 

Now I just need to stick them onto cards.

Have a lovely week.